Does God command genocide in the Bible?

September 24, 2020 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / No Comments

In this video, I offer a response to a short clip from an interview between Sean McDowell and Charlie Trimm. […]

Charlie Trimm, genocide, Sean McDowell

Is abortion a genocide?

January 4, 2020 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / No Comments

Dear fellow Pro-Lifers, Please do not refer to support for elective abortion as a “genocide”. The word “genocide” has a […]

abortion, bioethics, genocide, rhetoric

Special Pleading or Therapy? The J. Warner Wallace Dilemma

May 31, 2017 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 46 Comments

Popular Christian apologists have a problem. On the one hand, they are strident defenders of objective moral knowledge, often to […]

Amalekites, Bible, ethics, genocide, moral knowledge, Warner Wallace

Can divine wrath explain divinely commanded genocide?

May 11, 2017 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 39 Comments

In his 2005 book Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace theologian Miroslav Volf provides a penetrating […]

biblical ethics, biblical violence, ethics, genocide, Miroslav Volf, Paul Copan

The Oft-Overlooked Sins of Omission

November 14, 2016 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 15 Comments

There is an important distinction between sins of commission (the evil action) and sins of omission (the evil failure to […]

ethics, genocide, guilt, repentance, sin

The Act of Killing: A Review

January 20, 2016 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 14 Comments

Pull the annals of the twentieth century off the shelf and you will find them dripping with the blood of […]

documentary, evil, genocide, review, The Act of Killing

Divine Violence Revisited: My Response to Joshua Ryan Butler on “Unbelievable”

February 23, 2015 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 119 Comments

I just listened to the latest episode of “Unbelievable” with Justin Brierley which consisted of an interview with Joshua Ryan […]

Bible, biblical violence, ethics, genocide, Joshua Ryan Butler, Unbelievable

My review of Did God Really Command Genocide?: The Shorter Version

February 12, 2015 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 34 Comments

Yesterday I posted my review of Paul Copan and Matthew Flannagan’s Did God Really Command Genocide? as an Amazon review. […]

apologetics, biblical ethics, biblical violence, divine command theory, genocide, God, Matthew Flannagan, Paul Copan, review, theism

Did God Really Command Genocide? A Review (Part 3)

February 10, 2015 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 149 Comments

Paul Copan and Matthew Flannagan. Did God Really Command Genocide? Coming to Terms with the Justice of God. Baker, 2014, […]

apologetics, biblical ethics, biblical violence, Did God really command Genocide?, divine command ethics, ethics, genocide, Matthew Flannagan, Paul Copan, review

Did God Really Command Genocide? A Review (Part 2)

January 30, 2015 / Randal / The Tentative Apologist / 280 Comments

Paul Copan and Matthew Flannagan. Did God Really Command Genocide? Coming to Terms with the Justice of God. Baker, 2014. […]

apologetics, biblical violence, divine command ethics, ethics, genocide, hermeneutics, Matthew Flannagan, Paul Copan

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